Instant Kill
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An Instant Kill is a move in the Guilty Gear series. As its name states, it will defeat the opponent instantly if it hits. However, to perform this, IK Mode must be activated first by pressing 
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Upon activation, the Tension Meter will slowly decrease, and any Tension-required move can't be used (eg. Overdrive, Force Breaks, etc...). When the Tension Meter is empty in IK Mode, characters will gradually lose health. Also, regardless of sucess or failure, the Tension Meter is lost for the rest of the round.
Below is a list of Instant Kills found in the Guilty Gear series.
A.B.A
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| Unknown Darkness | |
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A.B.A loosens her bandages and then thrusts her hands to the ground. This knocks down the opponent while Paracelsus ascends and a huge gate is thrust up from the ground that sucks in the opponent. After the gate closes, Paracelsus descends and slices the gate in half.
Anji MitoEdit
| Zetsu | |
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Anji Mito goes inside a sphere made from his own Ki and flies off screen, opposite of where he is facing the opponent. He quickly returns, riding a flying dragon made of Ki that hits the foe.
Axl LowEdit
Guilty Gear X & XXEdit
| Midare Gami | |
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Axl Low makes a hand gesture forming an X while his chains from his Kusarigama form a circle on the ground. When stepped upon it catches the opponent. If the opponent is caught, multiple sickles will hit the foe in alternating directions, forcing his/her body upward before even more sickles attack. After a few moments, the body bursts into flames and falls to the ground.
Guilty GearEdit
| Rengoku Renzan | |
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Axl Low wraps his opponent from head to toe with chains from his Kusarigama. He then pulls on the chain, spinning and cutting his victim swiftly.
BaikenEdit
Guilty Gear X & XXEdit
| Garyou Tensei | |
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Baiken alludes samurai films as her opponent gets slashed inside a room, their bodies' outlines visible. The move was too quick, and all that would be seen is the opponent's blood splattering on the white walls as he/she gets destroyed.
Guilty GearEdit
| Tate Shunmaku | |
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Baiken delivers a single strike. A few moments later, the opponent collapses with multiple slashes.
BridgetEdit
| Shoot the Moon | |
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Bridget throws a yo-yo at the enemy. The yo-yo attaches to the victim if it lands a hit and Bridget manipulates the yo-yo to send the enemy to the moon, head first burying his/her head on the moon's ground.
Chipp ZanuffEdit
Guilty Gear X & XXEdit
| Delta End | |
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Chipp Zanuff makes his opponent explode in midair after trapping him/her in a star-shaped fire seal.
Guilty Gear XEdit
| Peerless Heaven and Earth Ogre Blade | |
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Chipp Zanuff dashes behind the opponent. He then delivers a killing blow as the spirit of a demonic mask appears in the background and is split in two.
DizzyEdit
| Chikara ga... tomerarenai... | |
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Dizzy turns into a black, demonic winged creature. As the ground begins to shake, energy builds up on Dizzy. Bright light flashes from her and then radiates outward with tremendous force that knocks the enemy down. She returns to normal holding her head due to a headache.
NotesEdit
This is one of the few Instant Kills in the X era games not to use the universal input, and is not listed in her original Accent Core movelist.
Dr. BaldheadEdit
| Peaceful Death from the Sky | |
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Dr. Baldhead tosses his opponent in the air, leaves his scalpel standing and lets the body get impaled by it. An Oriental-styled gravestone falls on top of them in increments, crushing their body and burying them.
EddieEdit
| Black In Mind | |
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Eddie encloses his opponent by his shadow that is shaped like a woman's face. This rapidly decomposes into a skeletal face and destroys the opponent.
FannyEdit
| Call 119 | |
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Fanny uses her giant syringe to slash her opponent and then calls an ambulance. When the ambulance arrives she bumps her opponent with her butt, sending him/her flying inside the ambulance along with her. A lot of ruckus and commotion happens inside the vehicle. Then the ambulance leaves, dropping the opponent when it passes by again. As the opponent stands up, Fanny descends down from above.
FaustEdit
| This Week's Climax! | |
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| Normal version | EX version |
Faust pokes his opponent and is then laid on a hospital operating bed. Faust then dives on him/her. When he lands on the ground, he pushes a switch and an atomic bomb explosion is shown in an old film style. Afterwards, Faust opens the hatch of his shelter, and comes out surprised to see nothing left with the world.
In the EX version and in Guilty Gear X, the bomb does not explode despite Faust's repeated attempts. He walks towards the patient to check what's wrong but the bomb explodes, comically altering Faust and his opponent's hair into an afro.
NotesEdit
Faust's EX Instant Kill is his previous instant kill from Guilty Gear X.
I-NoEdit
| Last Will And Testament | |
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After slapping the opponent upward, I-No begins playing her guitar on a demonic concert stage, the final riff of which causes the large speakers to destroy the victim with their sonic waves.
Jam KuradoberiEdit
| Gasenkotsu | |
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After charging into the enemy, Jam strikes the enemy repeatedly whilst various images of her appear, accompanied by various kanji. The final shot is of Jam delivering a flying kick with the background displaying a setting sun.
JohnnyEdit
| Joker Trick | |
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Johnny throws a card at the enemy. When it hits, it traps the enemy inside a spinning life size card with a portrait of the victim in distress on it. As the card stops spinning, Johnny cuts it in half diagonally and the card, and the victim disappears.
JusticeEdit
| X-Laser | |
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Justice grabs her opponent and rapidly flies up into space. She then ends the attack with a huge explosion.
Kliff UndersnEdit
| Haryuubakusai | |
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Kliff Undersn charges at his opponent and slashes him/her vertically. At the same time a portal on the ground opens and a dragon from above dives down and hits the enemy before then going through the portal. A second dragon then ascends from the portal, hitting the opponent again while knocking him/her down.
Ky KiskeEdit
Guilty Gear X & XXEdit
| Rising Force | |
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Ky Kiske creates small lighting energy in the form of a sphere at the tip of his sword. The sphere becomes a mighty torpedo of energy, with which Ky stabs the victim fatally.
NotesEdit
It is possible to see the visage of a womanly figure within the energy formed from the stab itself.
Guilty GearEdit
| Zwei Voltage | |
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Ky Kiske slashes his opponent horizontally and then vertically, forming a highly decorated cross made from lighting where the opponent is. Then the cross spreads more crosses horizontally and vertically as lighting orbs forming around the area knock the enemy down.
MayEdit
Guilty Gear X & XXEdit
| May And The Jolly Crew | |
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May grabs her opponent and jumps high, throwing her opponent down to the ground while she stays in midair. The crew of Jellyfish Pirates stampedes her opponent. As Leap tramples the enemy, March trips and cries behind her. Leap runs back towards March but she trips on the enemy's body and falls on it, crushing the opponent under her, sending him/her sliding back. March laughs and May lands to the ground, while Leap scratches her head due to being clumsy.
NotesEdit
This Instant Kill does not use the universal input used by others (236236 + HS, or Quarter Circle Forward x2), instead using 6321463214 and HS, or Half Circle Forward twice and HS. As of Guilty Gear XX, Dizzy can be seen among the crew running over the opponent, unless of course the victim is Dizzy.
Guilty GearEdit
| May Catapult | |
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May grabs her opponent and then multicolored lights and several knocked out dolphins and whales with bandages burst from the ground. This catapults her enemy and she waves good bye.
Millia RageEdit
Guilty Gear X & XXEdit
| Iron Maiden | |
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Millia Rage plunges her hair through the ground. It comes out under and multiple strips of hair let out a golden glow that stabs the opponent. As it stops, two huge twisted hair strands shaped like arrow tips impale the opponent from above while forming an X. Finally, the enemy falls to the ground as the hair disappears.
Guilty GearEdit
| Bug Bite | |
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Millia Rage hits her opponent with her hair. While stunned she climbs on top and stabs him/her through the back with her hair. She back flips off her opponent while he/she falls to the ground.
Order-SolEdit
| All Guns Blazing | |
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Order-Sol knees his opponent, stunning him/her, and dashes behind. He crouches as fire blazes behind him at a fast speed to the direction of where Order-Sol is facing cascading through the enemy and a much taller, faster blaze cascades, sending the enemy flying as Order-Sol stands up.
His second Instant Kill is merely Napalm Death, though is unique in that it can only be triggered when the opponent is correctly attacked with Order-Sol's Dragon Install Sekkai overdrive with their health at a sufficiently low level. It will thus trigger automatically.
NotesEdit
Order-Sol's Instant Kill, "All Guns Blazing", is Sol Badguy's original Instant Kill from the first Guilty Gear game. He is also the only character to have two different Instant Kills in the same game. However, "All Guns Blazing" can only be used in his EX Form, as well as when using his normal form with the Generations mode set to "GG".
PotemkinEdit
Guilty Gear X & XXEdit
| Magnum Opera | |
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Potemkin unleashes a burst of energy from his body that sends his opponent high in the air and is enough to disintegrate his collar and gauntlet. He then kisses his fist and punches his opponent while falling back down to the ground with such force.
Guilty GearEdit
| Nuclear Hammer | |
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Potemkin uses his incredible strength to strike the victim with a particularly explosive, two-handed hammer punch.
Robo-KyEdit
| Armored Lighting Legion! | |
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Hitting the opponent with his sword, Robo-Ky reclines on his fold-out chair and spits out 4 miniature Robo-Kys from his mouth. They grab the victim, fly into the air and violently explode.
SlayerEdit
| All Dead | |
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Slayer delivers a punch so powerful that it knocks the opponent all the way to outer space while he recites a haiku and light flashes on where the opponent is. The lines of the haiku are displayed in Japanese script.
Sol BadguyEdit
Guilty Gear X & XXEdit
| Napalm Death | |
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Sol Badguy crouches, and gets engulfed by flames that explode around him at the same time he jumps at a steep angle. He then delivers his knee to the enemy, knocking him/her out.
Guilty GearEdit
| All Guns Blazing | |
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Sol Badguy simply kicks his opponent, stunning him/her, and dashes behind. He crouches as fire blazes behind him going at a fast speed to the direction of where Sol is facing cascading through the enemy and a huge burst of flames sends the enemy flying as Sol stands up.
NotesEdit
Sol Badguy's first Instant Kill, "All Guns Blazing", is used by Order-Sol, in the latter's EX mode.
TestamentEdit
Guilty Gear X & XXEdit
| Seventh Sign | |
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Testament summons a succubus-type creature that stabs the victim once, with enough power to seemingly strike multiple times. The enemy is shown to be lying on a large bed decorated with a skull.
Guilty GearEdit
| Soul Vise | |
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Testament slams his victim to the ground and presses them with enough force to expel their soul from their body in the form of a skull-shaped explosion.
VenomEdit
| Dim Bomber | |
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Venom strikes the enemy with his cue and compresses them into a pool ball (humourously molded after the victim). An array of pool balls surround the victim as Venom fires yet one more. The balls spread outward and strike the victim one by one until the victim explodes.
ZappaEdit
| Frightening! | |
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Zappa briefly transforms into S-Ko, who then moves her hand towards the victim. A moment later, a solitary, decaying tree is briefly seen as S-Ko makes an eerie scream, which ends with S-Ko's eye being seen through a television screen.
NotesEdit
This Instant Kill seems to be based on Sadako Yamamura's method for killing her victims. This possibly happens because S-Ko is a homage to The Ring franchise.
Zato-1Edit
Guilty Gear XEdit
| Black In Mind | |
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Zato-1 grabs the opponent and encases them in a shadow shaped like a woman's face, which rapidly decomposes, scaring the life from the opponent. Eddie has this as his Instant Kill in later games.
Guilty GearEdit
| Fear Of The Dark | |
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Zato-1 summons a gigantic shadow hand that crushes the opponent into a bloody mess.
